1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Thembu
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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